Motivational Quotes

Argument

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire

2.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

3.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Saadi

4.

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

5.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

7.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Acton, Lord

8.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Layton, Irving

9.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Shakespeare, William

11.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Butler, Samuel

14.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

15.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

17.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

18.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Whately, Richard

21.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

23.

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

24.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverb

26.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Adler, Larry

27.

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

30.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Koch, Edward

31.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

32.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

34.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Sarton, May

35.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

36.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Auson

37.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

38.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Prior, Matthew

39.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Bacon, Roger

40.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

41.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

42.

A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.

43.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

Joubert, Joseph

44.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Whately, Richard

46.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

49.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

50.

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.